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Domodude

I find that the video setup does not work very well in some cases. I have one diskless MD that does not have an on-board speaker, so I do not hear the tones. That makes it hard to set up the video. I have no idea what happens while I press some keys -- is LMCE still booting? Is it working on something and should I wait? Did LMCE crash? (could happen if you use both DVI and HDMI cables), etc etc.

How about sending the tones through all available audio channels? I know the audio still needs to be set up at that point, but I am sure some basic audio channels are already available.

Furthermore, in case a specific key does not give a usable signal (and the TV stays blank), it would be nice to hear a chime when LMCE displays the new mode, and another one when LMCE returns to the default screen.

Domodude

...How about sending the tones through all available audio channels? I know the audio still needs to be set up at that point, but I am sure some basic audio channels are already available....

And how about if you want to hear the beeps you just hook up an internal speaker to your mainboard?

Sure, if that is possible. But neither this particular box, nor the motherboard has an internal speaker facility. But it's beside the point -- more important is that the audio feedback on your actions is currently very limited. I guess it's more of a feature request, but it arose out of frustration trying to set up a diskless MD without beeps from the onboard speaker.

Domodude

My house is under reconstruction, including the home theater. Once all is done, I'll look find the box again. I did look up the mobo, and it indeed does have a speaker connector. I think the PSile (by Nexus) does not have a speaker built in, though.

Again, the point is that the AV wizard is difficult to work with, in this particular case. Am I really the only one? Anyway. You guys do with it what you want.

It's the motherboard I tried in my core a few months ago. It's now sitting on my desk in my office. When I grabbed the PVR-150-MCE and 500GB HD out of it to put in the new core, I had another look for the speaker connector. The only "manual" I received with the motherboard was a small folding cardboard thing. I looked over it too, as it had all the pin-outs on it. No mention of the speaker connectors.

That's the first MB I have had experience with no speaker connector.

Strangely enough, I did locate the serial port pins, but the board didn't come with a serial port connector.

I'm trying to run the "old core" as a MD. In UI2 with blending it crashes. Tonight I have some free time so I rebooted and ran the video setup wizard and selectee UI2 without overlay (medium) and I'll play with that for a few hours to see what happens, just for my own amusement.

pero - for what its worth, I have tried installing (as core and MD) on Dell D410/20/30 with 0704, 0710b2/3/4/RC2 and have had the exact same issue of hanging every time. Especially when you actually try to play media. Sometimes it seems to work fine for a couple of mins other times it crashes before you get to play something. Never worked out what it was, but I know in the past the Intel945 video chip set has caused problems with linux and LMCE, seems to handle it much better now (RC2), but I assumed it was still something to do with that.... very annoying!

I've built 2 systems and had completely different experiences installing RC2 on each. My test system just worked - little bit of tinkering with the TV card but that was minor. My new system is just not happening at all - I've had loads of attempts to install and it's just not getting there. I'd love to be able to give specifics about the error, but each time it stops in a different location, sometimes with an error (occasionally a kernel panic), sometimes just hanging - I give it at least 30 minutes each time just to be sure it's hung and not just thinking about it.

The frustrating thing for me is that whilst it installed beautifully on my test HTPC this hardware is just that bit too noisy and so is due for reassignment once the new, quieter system is up & running. The spec's of each are below:

install kubuntu 7.04 - failed, I generally try this & linuxmce 7.10 RC2 with each of the above

install ubuntu 7.10 - failed

install WinXP - worked

NB: When installing kubuntu 7.04, it starts & runs from the CD but hangs during install - generally, but not always, during file copy and rarely at the same % complete. Could it be I need to solve this first ??

Not sure that you have the same case as me. When I installed LMCE a few times I had following problem. Installation hanged up on the network configuration stage. It was just black screen with blinking cursor in the top left corner of the screen. I solved that by installing plain Kubuntu 7.10 on the HDD. And then installation from DVD was successful.

Also, sometimes my K3b burns DVD not correctly. There are no any errors during burning but DVD is corrupted (there is a few empty areas). So, check it as well.

It sounds like you've done most of the basics, but there are a few more things to try. What I don't like is that kubuntu live doesn't boot. Do you get to the grub menu? If so, try running memtest for a few hours. Maybe try another liveCD/DVD linux distro, preferable a current release (the MB looks about a generate back from bleeding edge so should have good support in current releases). What we are wanting is some warm fuzzy the the basics are working (power, cpu, memory, video, dvd) under linux.

Maybe pull out the MB manual and go over the bios step by step. Disable frills, be conservative.

Visually inspect all connections again (MB 4- & 24- pin power connectors in particular) for full seating.

Remove TV card to give you a minimal system (case, power supply, MB, CPU, memory, HDD, DVD) and try the liveCD/DVD.

Shotgun steps are: upgrade BIOS, replace DVD drive.

I suggest keeping with the nvidia 7300 video card until you have good hardware. I don't think Kubuntu 0710 supports the 9xxx series without a driver update.

Maybe try another liveCD/DVD linux distro, preferable a current release (the MB looks about a generate back from bleeding edge so should have good support in current releases). What we are wanting is some warm fuzzy the the basics are working (power, cpu, memory, video, dvd) under linux.

I'm downloading kubuntu Gutsy and Hardy. I figure that if (say) Gutsy doesn't work but Hardy does then we'll have a better pointer - and my download limit resets tomorrow

You've given me a few other good pointers - thanks - with only limited evening hours it'll take me a couple of days to work through this lot, I'll post an update as soon as I have something conclusive or I'm at the end of this list.

new here and linux is pretty new for me as well so I choose to go for a safe route and buy hw that is recommended or tested. So, I went for the newbie core/hybrid pack with slight modifications since I could not find all the hw listed (dvd and CPU)(from the shops I usually buy from)Plan is to learn more about this to be able to do some more sidesteps in the future and maybe also be able to help in the developement of this (from what I have read) absolutely wonderful piece of software.(yes I fell in love directly when looking at the video and the specs)

Now to the problem.. Burned a dvd with the amd 64 rc2 dvd (not DL) from another computer.With Windows on it and the wiki recommended burner(dvdburner? not sure..)

Tried booting with it and I saw a quick complaint(I guess) about the acpi timer at the same "page" where the kernel is listed in the bottom during the install before computer seemed to go into hibernate(or Hang dunno but only restart helped) So I tried all the recommendations I could find. Booting(f6) with noacpi, pci=noapci etc etc..Off course I turned off the acpi totally in the bios and the computer got into a boot-loop. (boot to biospage then boot again)

Became somewhat sad since the hw I bought I (Thought) was tested before recommending(?)Anyways, I dont give up easily but since this acpi thingy is over my head and patching the kernel I will not(read a page about doing that) I burned a disc with the Kubuntu 8.04.And.. guess what.. the install went fine and the hw above is now running fine on that. However I am so sold on this LinuxMce so I tried installing (Linux MCE CD version) on top(just had to try) but that would off course not work.

I dont want to sit and "wait" for the Linux MCE 8.04(?) so I ordered a new MB now, this time the ABIT AN-M2HD.. hope this will work better.But, what can be the issue with this setup?What are the ways to get this to work?Can I help in some way in case the MB really does not work with 7.10?

Br and thanks again for taking your time to put this sw together!Johan